Much is known historically about the formal place for religion and spirituality in various countries. Less is known … sociologically about the actual ways religion and spirituality are present in public institutions or about the conceptual and … methodological assumptions that underlie how scholars approach the study of religion within public institutions. We conceive of …

Each of the essays presented enters the conversation about religion in public institutions through a different analytic … consider: the centrality of religion to the organizational identity or to organizational goal achievement, the effect of a … specific aspect of the institution's organizational structure on religion, and the relevance of larger cross …

Bride kidnapping is a form of forced marriage in which a woman is taken against her will and coerced into accepting … marriage with her captor. Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan has seen a large increase in the prominence of this practice alongside a … of mens' marriage modality choice to analyze the impacts that aksakal governance has on the decision to kidnap. Based on …